James Terrence McCabe

James Terrence McCabe, professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, received a Humboldt Research Award.

The award recognizes lifetime achievements in research and includes an invitation for winners to spend a period of up to one year cooperating on a long-term research project with specialist colleagues at a research institution in Germany.

Professor McCabe's research focuses on land-use strategies and decisions among pastoral people in eastern Africa. During the 2009-10 winter semester he will work to further his research with international specialists at the Cologne African Studies Center, part of the University of Cologne in Germany.